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National Animal Rights Day Protest Video

The National Animal Rights Day (http://thenard.org), established by Our Planet. Theirs Too. in 2011, is an annual day observed in the US on the first weekend of June, for the purpose of giving a voice to animals and raising awareness for their rights, until these rights are established and protected by the law.

FreeAnimalVideo.org founder Patty Shenker at the National Animal Rights Day.

On this day, special events are held simultaneously in various cities across the US. These events include an opening requiem ceremony commemorating the billions of animals who die every year by human hands in this country; reading and signing the Declaration of Animal Rights; and a celebration of the future, the beginning of which is already here: a cruelty-free lifestyle for humans, and freedom and equal rights for all animals.

This video is free to use and was shot in Santa Monica, California on May 31, 2014.

You can download and use this FREE Video Clip at freeanimalvideo.org. Contact us if you need a higher resolution video clip. Our mission is to help animals by sharing video of them. Please donate to The National Animal Rights Day (thenard.org) site to support their efforts and continue sending this message.

Success! Westfield Mall Stops Selling Hermit Crabs as Toys in CA

You can download and use this FREE Video Clip of this shot at freeanimalvideo.org. These hermit crabs were painted to be sold as toys in the mall. http://FreeAnimalVideo.org protested this practice (with the help of Mohr Publicity) and the mall removed the crabs. Now this vendor only sells puzzles, guitars and other children’s toys.

This is the kiosk “after” we promoted video of the animal cruelty. Thank you Westfield Mall for helping animals by removing this cruel business.

Hollywood Star James Cromwell Stands Up For Animals in Air France Protest at LAX

FreeAnimalVideo.orghas confirmed with PETA that Oscar nominated James Cromwell has decided he will cage himself in a shipping crate inside the Air France International Departures Terminal at LAX at noon on April 28. Why would Cromwell, who stands at 6-foot-7-inches, cram himself into a crate?

The actor, who recently won an Emmy for his role on American Horror Story: Asylum is protesting Air France’s treatment of monkeys. According to a press release from PETA, Air France is the only major airline in the world that flies monkeys to laboratories where they too are caged, and often tortured and killed. The monkeys come from either monkey farms, where they are kept in poor conditions, or are snatched from their homes in the wild. In 2013, Air France shipped at least 5,500 monkeys, packed into small crates for up to 30 hours, to the U.S.

According to Laist.com, Cromwell said:
“The real horror story is the pain and terror of the monkeys in Air France’s cargo holds beneath the feet of unsuspecting passengers. My friends at PETA and I are telling Air France that cruelty shouldn’t fly and that the airline needs to join the rest of the industry in refusing to deliver primates to their deaths in laboratories.”

http://FreeAnimalVideo.org and http://MohrPublicity.com will supply footage of this event at their website for FREE DOWNLOAD and USE.

Cromwell is a long-time activist and defender of animals. He became a vegetarian in 1974 and a vegan while filming 1995′s Babe.

In 2013, Cromwell was arrested alongside PETA spokesman Jeremy Beckham when the pair interrupted a board meeting at the University of Madison-Wisconsin to protest the school’s alleged torture of cats for brain research.

According to Mohr Publicity, Last Chance for Animals scored a big win for the Animals when Justin Bieber stopped by their Air France protest and picked up a shirt and flyer.

Jane Velez-Mitchell is the author of ‘iWant: My Journey from Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life’ and ‘Secrets Can Be Murder: The Killer Next Door’ as well as ‘Addict Nation: An Intervention for America’. She hosts the Jane Velez-Mitchell show nightly on HLN at 7p ET.

McDonald’s says it’s phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying. I was so grateful because I have witnessed the horror. One look at a pig gestation crate and you will know exactly what I mean.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It’s usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

By “she” I mean the almost six million breeding pigs that as you read this, are stacked in giant warehouses unable to see the light of day. Each female pig is surrounded by thousands of other sows, screeching their wretchedness. It’s obscene. It’s shameful. It’s un-American. It gives me nightmares. Literally.

So, I was thrilled and filled with hope when I heard that headline that the company synonymous with fast food was committing to only buy pork from farmers that do not use gestation crates.

But, then, I heard “by 2022.”

I felt hoodwinked. I felt angry. If you know something is morally reprehensible then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible. If you see a child who is being kept in abusive conditions you don’t say, “Hey, I’ll be back in a decade and get you out of this jam.” You do something immediately.

According to the Humane Society of the United States, studies show pigs are more intelligent than dogs and even some primates. Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

I believe McDonald’s, and all the other companies who are prolonging the process of ending this institutionalized torture, are foot-dragging despite the pleas of American consumers who are decent people and don’t want to co-sign or subsidize this incomprehensible cruelty.

To quote Paul Shapiro, HSUS Vice President of Farm Animal Protection, “Forcing a 500-pound, social, intelligent creature to live 24/7 in a cage barely larger than her body is simply cruel and inhumane. These animals are essentially immobilized and lined up like parked cars for months on end.”

Legendary animal welfare scientist Dr. Temple Grandin says, “We’ve got to treat animals right, and gestation stalls have got to go.” The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production – which was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and included the former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture – recommends all systems that “restrict natural movement,” including gestation crates, be phased-out.

And I say, end them now. NOW!

To those who rationalize, “Well, these crates are economically efficient and ending this system is going to drive the price of pork up,” I say: not so fast.

Pigs in gestation crates are much more likely to get sick. A Humane Society report on gestation crates issued just this month said, “Housing the sows directly above their own excrement has been shown to expose the animals to aversively high levels of ammonia, and respiratory disease has been found to be a significant health issue for pigs kept in confinement.”

The report, based on a study conducted by Donald Broom, professor of Animal Welfare at the University of Cambridge and Jeremy Marchant-Forde, now a research animal scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, delivers a litany of foot and leg disorders, body sores, urinary tract infections, cardiovascular problems and traumatic injury caused by being forced to stand and lie on a tiny rectangle of unnatural flooring often covered with residual feces and urine.

The alternative “group housing,” allows pigs greater freedom of movement. Iowa State University conducted a two-and-a-half year long economic analysis of the issue and found that that a group housing solution resulted in a weaned pig cost that was 11 percent less than the cost of a weaned pig from the individual stall confinement system.

It’s time to get real about the real costs of factory farming and its attendant cruelties. The United States, by far the world’s biggest meat consumers, is in the throes of an obesity crisis driven, I believe, by the availability of cheap meat via fast food.

That obesity crisis is driving up the cost of health care and health care is a key factor in our government’s current struggle to get a grip on the nation’s ballooning deficit. If treating our fellow creatures with just a sliver of decency during the process of raising them to be killed costs a tad more, be assured there will be plenty of positive repercussions.

The factory farm industry has gone to tremendous lengths to try to keep the secret of pig gestation crates from the American public. But, thanks to the work of the HSUS,Farm Sanctuary, Mercy for Animals and PETA, the secret is out.

Americans have gotten a glimpse of this hidden horror and want it to stop. Not in 2022. Now.

FreeAnimalVideo.org co-founder Sandra Mohr was in Uganda, Africa for 2 weeks shooting high definition video of the beautiful animals there. We now offer this video FREE at this site so that the public can use this footage in their projects and to help educate others. FreeAnimalVideo.org is the best place for free animal video.

FreeAnimalVideo.org was in Borneo, Indonesia to meet over 300 orphaned orangutans and tell their story.

To find out more about rescuing orangutans, please visit organgutan.org to find out more about Orangutan Foundation International. See the video below.

Street beggars use monkeys everyday in the crowded streets of Jakarta,Indonesia to beg for money. The monkey is forced to wear a mask, clothing, and is yanked by a chain as people pass by. Freeanimalvideo.org provides HD/quicktime stock footage of animals for the media and film makers.

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